I have taken the liberty to adapt your files a bit in order to explain a few things.
When you draw a multi-level building it is very important that you work with exact X,Y coordinates. Hand-drawn walls will never stack properly and result in ragged walls, corners, etc. The most important change I made is change all coordinates in such a way that the ground floor and first floor have the exact same X,Y coordinates for walls, floors, etc.
This also makes it much easier to place furniture in a correct manner; in this case, e.g., with logical distances between two rows of restaurant tables.
Just have a look and compare what I did with your own design.
Hans
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Re: 2 floor restaurant.
Fred,
I have forgotten all about v2.6. That was ages ago, in another life. Please update to v3.0 (not v3.1) and make sure you have the latest updates of the plug-ins. Follow exactly the description in this post: I wrote it while doing a step-by-step myself to make sure I didn't omit the tiniest detail.
I now notice one other thing. You wrote
Since I didn't have: a plugins dir in .eteks/sweethome3d/plugins I created one and then moved the plugins over to that dir
Maybe here we have the problem?
- Which operating system do you have? Am I correct that it's Linux/Ubuntu? The dot in ".eteks" makes me think so. - In the menu, can you see the new command Tools --> Copy as new furniture ? - Do you have other plug-ins installed? Do they work correctly? - Do you open BOTH files before you make your selection, and before you give the command Tools --> Copy as new furniture ?
I don't want to seem overbearing, but this method really works. If there is an English word you don't understand, send me an email or PM in German, and we'll try and sort it out in German if that's easier for you. The language problem then lies with me, as my English is better than my German, but at least you will understand all nuances and can ask the right questions.
Hans
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Re: 2 floor restaurant.
Hello Hans and thank you for your input.
- Which operating system do you have? Am I correct that it's Linux/Ubuntu? The dot in ".eteks" makes me think so. - In the menu, can you see the new command Tools --> Copy as new furniture ? - Do you have other plug-ins installed? Do they work correctly? - Do you open BOTH files before you make your selection, and before you give the command Tools --> Copy as new furniture ?
Yes, to all of the above.
I was trying out my designs on my friends windows laptop with vers. 2.6.
Made no real difference.
As a Californian, English should not be a problem
All plugins are latest. The version on my machine is 3.0.
I'll go through your step-by-step again. and report back.
